23rd Annual November 3 - 5, 2017 Schedule for Friday, November 3rd

6:30 - 8:00 How to Hard with Eric West and Nicole Leibon $30.00/ticket Hawks & Reed, Greenfield

7:30 - 9:00 Cider Pub Sing (BYOC) FREE Episcopal Church Parish Hall, Greenfield 9:00 - 11:00 Dance Cafe with live French acoustic dance music and instruction FREE Episcopal Church Parish Hall, Greenfield Schedule for Saturday, November 4th 8:00 - 11:00 Pancake Breakfast nominal charge Second Congregational Church, Greenfield

8:30 - 10:30 Beginner’s Cider Making Workshop w/ Bob Delisle & Charlie Olchowski Pine Hill Orchards, Colrain (includes materials, instruction and your first batch) $85/ticket

9:00 - 10:00 Top Working Old Orchards with Eliza Greenman FREE Shelburne Buckland Community Center 9:15 - 10:15 8 Blends, 3 Yeasts, 2 Scientists: Experimental cider making in the Finger Lakes * Shelburne Buckland Community Center 10:15 - 11: 15 Biodynamic Orcharding talk with Mike Biltonen of Know Your Roots, LLC FREE West Cider Tasting Room, Shelburne

10:30 - 11:30 Perry: The Finest of w/Tom Oliver, Olivers Cider & Perry, UK FREE Shelburne Buckland Community Center

10:30 - 11:30 State of Cider in the US: Panel with the US Association of Cider Makers FREE Shelburne Buckland Community Center

11:15 - 12:00 Orchard Ride FREE Pine Hill Orchards, Colrain

11:30 - 12:30 Informal Q & A with veteran cider makers FREE Shelburne Buckland Community Center

11:30 - 12:30 Wild , Wild Cider w/John Bunker, Andy Brennan and Steve Gougeon FREE Bear Swamp Orchard & Cidery, Ashfield

12:00 - 1:00 Modern vs. Traditional cider making methods with Claude Jolicoeur FREE Shelburne Buckland Community Center

12:00 - 1:30 Cider Press Demo by OESCO, Inc. FREE Clarkdale Fruit Farms, Deerfield

12:00 - 2:00 Hard Cider Tasting (Artifact) and Heirloom Apple Orchard Tour FREE Tip Top Orchard, Buckland

12:00 - 3:00 Tasting of a variety of commercial hard and FREE Ryan & Casey Liquors, Greenfield

12:30 - 2:00 Home Cider Makers Tasting: Ciders from the ‘16 Harvest Shelburne Buckland Community Center with Paul Correnty, Charlie Olchowski, Martin Stokes, Steve Patt, plus award presentation from 5th Annual Amateur Cidermaker Competition* 1:00 - 2:00 Growing Organic Apples for Cider & Eating FREE Bear Swamp Orchard & Cidery, Ashfield

1:00 - 3:00 Tasting of Local and Regional Cheeses FREE Green Fields Market/McCusker’s Market

1:00 - 2:00 Basic Apple Tree Pruning with Steve Weisman FREE New Salem Preserves and Orchards

1:30 - 2:00 Orchard Walk and Talk with Tom and Ben Clark FREE Clarkdale Fruit Farms, Deerfield

1:30 - 2:30 Back to the Future: Making high quality ciders w/Curt Sherrer, Millstone Cellars FREE Shelburne Buckland Community Center

2:30 - 3:30 From Ashmead to Zabergau: Heirloom Apple talk and tasting with Amy Traverso of Yankee Magazine (author of The Apple Lovers Cookbook) FREE Clarkdale Fruit Farms, Deerfield

2:30 - 3:30 Tending Backyard Apple Trees with Steve Lanphear, Sentinel Farm FREE New Salem Preserves & Orchards

3:30 - 5:00 Cider Salon I: Tasting of Ciders from across North America $30/ticket Unity Park, Turners Falls

5:45 - 7:15 Cider Salon II: Tasting of Ciders from across North America $30/ticket Unity Park, Turners Falls

*For tastings, purchase a CiderDays glass for $5 Child-Friendly Event Subject to Change - Revised 10/06/17

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10:00 - 11:00 Making Cider Vinegar with Jen Williams & Eliza Greenman FREE Bear Swamp Orchard & Cidery, Ashfield

10:00 - 11:00 Cooking Demo with Sandy D’Amato, Good Stock Farm FREE Clarkdale Fruit Farms, Deerfield

10:00 - 11:00 Cider & Perry Traditions in Mostviertel, Austria, with Johannes Scheiblauer FREE Deerfield Community Center, Deerfield 11:00 - 12:30 Bring Your Own: Tasting Homemade Ciders* Apex Orchards, Shelburne Paul Correnty, Charlie Olchowski, Martin Stokes, Steve Patt

11:00 - 12:00 Orchard Ride FREE Pine Hill Orchards, Colrain

11:00 - 12:00 Apple-themed cooking demo with Erika Connell Cooper, Butter & Birch FREE Clarkdale Fruit Farms, Deerfield

11:00 - 12:00 Make Your Own Vinegar, Health Tonics and Herbal Oxymels w/Laura Ketteringham and Curt Sherrer FREE New Salem Preserves and Orchards

11:30 - 12:30 Perry Tasting with Tom Oliver, Olivers Cider & Perry SOLD OUT Deerfield Community Center, Deerfield

12:00 - 1:00 A History of Apples in America with John Bunker FREE Bear Swamp Orchard & Cidery, Ashfield

12:00 - 1:00 Culinary Uses of Cider : A natural, versatile sweetener with Terry McCue FREE New Salem Preserves & Orchards 12:30 - 1:30 Making Barrel Cider with Steve Patt and Paul Correnty* Apex Orchards, Shelburne 1:00 - 2:00 Specialty Cider Tasting with Ben Watson $30/ticket Deerfield Community Center, Deerfield

1:00 - 2:30 Home Hard Cider Makers Workshop; Make & Taste with April Woodard FREE New Salem Preserves and Orchards

2:30 - 3:30 Making Spanish-Style Cider (Sidra) in America Panel & Tasting $30/ticket Deerfield Community Center, Deerfield

3:00 - 4:00 Lost Apples of the Quabbin - slide show and talk by Matt Kaminsky FREE New Salem Preserves & Orchards

4:00 - 5:00 Cider and Cheese Pairing with Provisions of Northampton $30/ticket Deerfield Community Center, Deerfield

Other Saturday & Sunday Tastings and Events (FREE unless specified)

Cider and Apple Festival at Child Friendly Cider Mill (10 - 4 Sat/Sun) New Salem Preserves & Orchards Tasting of Hard Cider Varietals (10 - 4 Sat/Sun) West County Cider Tasting Room, Shelburne Tasting of Hard Cider (10 - 4 Sat/Sun) Bear Meadow Farm Cidery, Ashfield Tasting of Apples, Pears, Sweet Ciders (10 - 4 Sat/Sun) Clarkdale Fruit Farms, Deerfield Hard and sweet cider tasting, cidery tours, orchard walks (10 - 4 Sat/Sun) Bear Swamp Orchard & Cidery, Ashfield Tasting of wild fermented ciders, , switchel, , and vinegars (11 - 4 Sat/Sun) Carr’s Ciderhouse, Hadley Tours of the Orchard and Cider Mill (11 - 4 Sunday Only) Headwater Cider, Hawley Tasting of Green River Meads and Cyzer (11 - 4 Sat/Sun) $5 - 7 tasting fee Artisan Beverage Cooperative, Greenfield for home fermenting available for sale, restaurant, market (7 - 6 Sat/Sun) Pine Hill Orchards, Colrain Cider tasting, restaurant with savory light fare (11 - 9 Fri/Sat; 12-4 Sun) Cameron’s Winery, Northfield Hard cider tasting, fresh cider, apples, farm store and musem and more (10 - 4 Sat/Sun) Wheel-View Farm, Shelburne

*For tastings, purchase a CiderDays glass for $5 Child-Friendly Event Subject to Change - Revised 10/06/17

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